Former White House Officials: Trump Is Missing an Opportunity by Not Calling Obama, Bush, Clinton

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Reaching out to predecessors in crisis is standard American practice, and could help unite the country during the coronavirus crisis. But Trump has rewritten the rules

No one expects to see Trump and Obama traveling the world arm in arm when Trump is no longer president, but right now would be an opportunity for the former presidents to come together, as they have in the past, and share their experiences dealing with health crises. Bush could tell Trump about how he dealt with SARS during his presidency and Obama could share details about H1N1 swine flu .

Trump has not spoken with Bill Clinton since his inauguration, and aside from saying “hello” and “goodbye” at George H.W. Bush’s funeral, he has. He’s had only slightly more communication with his most recent Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. One former top Trump aide said that it would be a welcome sign if Trump would pick up the phone and call his predecessors, who would surely help, and convey a unifying message.

It is a long-held tradition of the presidency to put pride and hurt feelings aside during catastrophes. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the agonizing 13-day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles being built in Cuba, John F. Kennedy called Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower to brief them on the situation. Former presidents have often been bitter about losing and resentful of the person who replaced them.

At George W. Bush’s presidential library dedication in 2013, when all the living former presidents were

 

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We need to stop pretending that Trump is capable of governing anything. He's not even fit to be in public. Let alone public office. He's too racist to accept help from the World Health Organization, or Obama. Plus, he's completely ignorant and incapable of deductive reasoning.

Reach out to the predecessor that spied on his campaign?

Reach out to street-pamphleteer turned America-corruptor?

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